Mozilla doesn't offer the update to Firefox 8.0.1 to user on Windows.
That (automatic) update is only offered to users on Mac because it doesn't make a change to users on Windows and Linux.

• http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/8.0.1/releasenotes/

You can find the latest Firefox release here if you want the 8.0.1 version:

• Firefox 8.0.x: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

A moderator posted that Mac get upgraded to 8.0.1, and 3,6.24 gets optionally updated to 8.0.1, but for Windows there was no real benefit so we will go directly to 9.0 from 8.0 Anybody starting new now gets 8.0.1 since near end of Nov.

I don't know about optionally because every time I restored my 3.6.* system it ends up on 8.0 when restated so obviously my profiles have been damaged.

The only benefit for Windows users to have 8.0.1 is if they have a older version of Roboform or to try if they are getting crashes upon Firefox startup. Even though Linux users have no need for 8.0.1 at all it was just easier to provided it anyways much like they did with Firefox 5.0.1 when that was only for Mac OSX 10.5 and 10.7 users in mind.

Windows, Mac and Linux users using older Firefox 4.0 to 7.0.1 releases from Mozilla will get the update to 8.0.1 if user checks for updates.

Still doesn't explain why some systems updated and others didn't. I will also note that .zip files aren't downloading properly under 8.0 but works under 8.01 which is what made me spot the difference. So what seems to be stated is to get working .zip downloads I need to manually update right?

Still doesn't explain why some systems updated and others didn't...

If they were Windows systems then they likely had a version between 4.0 and 7.0.1

The Firefox 8.0 to 8.0.1 patch has only been served to Mac users.

While this is a poor solution, I guess it's what Mozilla has done! My Firefox 8.0 XP Pro systems don't download .zip files correctly and I have been forced to use WGET to do downloading of zips because of this. It's a poor excuse to say 8.01 doesn't help much when it fixes this problem! I guess I'm forced to manually update the systems that are still stuck at 8.0 so I can use zip files again! Bad move on Mozilla's part.

> The Firefox 8.0 to 8.0.1 patch has only been served to Mac users.

I have a circa-2004 Dell D600 laptop running Windows XP Pro SP3 and it got updated to 8.0.1, while my circa-2004 Dell 8300 desktop running Windows XP Home SP3 did not. I am fairly sure both were at 8.0 before, and I did nothing intentionally to change either.

IMHO each release should go to *all* operating systems, whether it supposedly impacts them or not. Otherwise, it makes all users (like those in this thread) have to take the time to figure out *why* some machines have updated and some haven't -- an apparent defect, that if you learn enough and waste enough time, isn't apparently a defect. Would anyone be offended if an update to the latest release happened and it didn't change anything on their OS? (Particularly for those that like details, documentation just said nothing changed on specific OSs.)